>> Have you looked at Pivot's Web Query classes? They allow you to build REST >> services fairly easily and are very small. If you use JSON as your data >> format, you can use JSONSerializer to bind the data to and from Java bean >> classes. > Yes, they are elegant and nice for web-related queries, but for a business > 2-tier application it suffers from the same problems that I mentioned > earlier. I'll create a blog post and a screencast to showcase BRAP for Pivot > as soon as I can, I think many would benefit greatly from that kind of > remoting capabilities in their app :)
Sounds good. FWIW, I just read your Javalobby article on BRAP: http://java.dzone.com/announcements/brap-trouble-free-lightning While Web Queries don't allow you to define your services using interfaces, they do support binary serialization (for example, via org.apache.pivot.serialization.BinarySerializer) as well as custom authentication and authorization (see org.apache.pivot.web.Authentication). G
